cadmia

From Latin cadmia, ultimately from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Doublet of calamine, calaminaris, and lapis calaminaris.

cadmia (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete) Synonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide.

• “cadmia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Adamic

• Homophones: cadmias, cadmiât

cadmia

1. third-person singular past historic of cadmier

cadmia

1. inflection of cadmiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Ancient Greek κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmíā), variant of Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kadmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Equivalent to Cadmus +‎ -ia.

• cadmēa

cadmīa

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kadˈmiː.a/, [käd̪ˈmiːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kadˈmi.a/, [käd̪ˈmiːä]

cadmĭa

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]

cadmī̆a f (genitive cadmī̆ae); first declension

1. (alchemy, chemistry) calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.
2. (metallurgy, figuratively) dross, any furnace slag

First-declension noun.

• calamina, calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

• English: cadmia
• Medieval Latin: calamina, calaminaris, lapis calaminaris
  • English: calaminaris, lapis calaminaris
  • French: calamine
    • English: calamine

• “cadmī̆a”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 cadmēa (-mīa ou -mĭa) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “235/2”

Regularly conjugated forms of cadmium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]

cadmia n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cadmium

From cadmiu.

a cadmia (third-person singular present cadmiază, past participle cadmiat) 1st conj.

1. to cover with cadmium